What appears to be a teaser trailer for the coming reboot of “Godzilla” from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures has hit the web. The clip has more gravitas than the original films that featured the creature, and the pace of the teaser is certainly more stately than the schlocky Roland Emmerich-directed “Godzilla” that came out in 1998. The impact is heightened by a voice over of the famous line from the Bhagavad Gita that J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the developers of the atom bomb, once quoted: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” The monster looks a little different too, but the roar evokes the roar of old. The new movie, directed by Gareth Edwards, stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, Juliette Binoche, and Sally Hawkins, and is due out May 16, 2014. According to Coming Soon, the footage in the teaser is a probable leak of a clip that was screened at San Diego Comic-Con two years ago. (Speakeasy wrote about that footage when it was first shown.) Warner Bros. said it had no comment on the teaser. Monster films are hard to pull off–”Cloverfield” hit home, but “Pacific Rim” seemed to miss the mark with critics and audiences, despite Idris Elba‘s strong presence. How does this “Godzilla” teaser look to you? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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